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A Geneology Collection by Debbie Mills
John Gietzen
Born: circa 1813 Germany
Parents: unknown
Marriage: Anna unknown
Children: Joseph, Barbara, Susanna, Appolonia; Susanna is not found after 1860 in Waupaca Co, may have moved elsewhere after marriage, or died. In the St. Patrick’s County Cemetery, city of Lebanon, where the family lived initially, there are two grave markers for John Geitzen and Francis Geitzen, both listed as son of John, both died March 20, 1875
Emigration:
NY Passenger List Dec 1857, ship “Catherine and Cumbria”, port of departure Antwerp, Belgium: Johan Joseph Getzen, age 44, farmer, family from Germany, Anna, cannot decipher age ?2
Joseph 22
Susanna 12
Appolonia 7
Barbara 13 (born circa 1844)
Death: 1895, Buried St. Mary’s Cemetery, Bear Creek. Stone “John Gitzen”, erected by his daughter Pluny Mares
Census:
1880 US Census, Waupaca Co, Bear Creek
John J. Getzen, 67, Farmer, b Prussia
Mary, 60, wife, b Prussia
lives a few doors down from daughter Appelonia, married to John Mares
1870 US census, WI, Waupaca Co, town of Lebanon:
John Gitzen, age 57, farmer, born Prussia, parents of foreign birth, value of real estate $700, personal estate $250
Gertrude, age 65 (? 2nd wife or middle name of Ann, 1st wife)
1860 US Census, WI, Waupaca, Lebanon
John Gidson, 45, farmer, value of real estate $100, value of personal property $50, all born Germany
Ann, age 55
Barbery, 18
Susanna, 15
Pauline, 19
Joseph Bell, 23
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